www.pricewatch.com go to mobo/cpu combos. ATA refers to the type of hd, but
rather genericly. SerialATA (aka SATA, just short of satan) is a new standard
with the very small hard drive cables. Parllel ATA (usally ATA) are normal
hd's.

In the end I buy the hardware that is most availible and cheapest, make does
not matter all that much (except wireless cards). You should not pay more than
100 bucks for a 120 gig.

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On Wed, 21 May 2003, Carl Parrish wrote:

> Okay many of you know that I don't even pretend to know hardware. Well
> I'm trying to fix that so I've been reading a lot on Tom's hardware
> guide, and hardwareguys.com. I *think* I want the following in my new
> computer a Seagate 120 GB Barracuda ATA/ 100 7200rpm  hard drive an AMD
> Athlon XP 2400+ and the Asus A7N8X Deluxe mother board. But here's where
> I get lost. Will the A7N8X support the AMD chip? I mean I know it did
> other AMD chips but I can't find anyone who says it supports the one I'm
> wanting to buy. Its a Socket A board (I think) but will the 2400+ fit
> with a Socket A board? where do I find out? Also the hard drive is an
> ATA does that mean I need a special board? If so does the A7N8X fit? (I
> think I saw somewhere that it had ATA but I'm not really sure what that
> means). The ASUS A7N8X comes with a Nvidia SoundStorm on board. I've
> never had a lot of luck with on board sound chips and Linux does anyone
> know if this chip is supported in RedHat 8.0? My version of Upgranding
> and Repariring PCs seems to be *way* out of date as none of the
> technology I'm looking for seems to be included (though its a great
> intro to hardware - I have the Linux edition). 
> 
> Any help out there?
> -- 
> Carl Parrish (cparrish@carlparrish.com)
> http://www.carlparrish.com
> ---
> Registered Linux User #295761 http://counter.li.org
> 
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